Encyclopedia Small Silver Coins | Date: 15 April 2011, 11:31
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Softcover book - The latest incarnation of Brother Can You Spare A Dime? - Modern Dime Size Silver Coins of the World with Footnotes to History has been published in a Third Edition. This work, a many year project to study these coins as miniature engravings of Art and History, was first published in 1997. Several years later a CD-rom was produced as the Second Edition. The author won a Numismatic Literary Guild Award for this Edition. The Third Edition, a 600 page book with over a thousand enlarged scans of the coins from the mid 1800's to 1970 show coins from around the world - Afghanistan to Yemen. These coins were the money of the people at the time; one would represent a days work, purchase a meal or a night's entertainment. Kings, Queens and Statesmen are portrayed on dozens, with little biographies of many. More than a numismatic book, this anthology is a fine way to develop a better understanding of money in use during the previous two centuries. A great addition to your numismatic library.
Roger deWardt Lane, third generation hotel executive became interested in coins shortly after his
young children started collecting foreign coins. Their interest soon waned and he continued the hobby.
Selecting his daughter’s specialty he has assembled an extensive type and date collection of this series,
which formed the basis of his studies of the subject. Starting before the current catalogers had listed all
dates, he had to research this information using his other numismatic interest - numismatic literature.
This Encyclpedia of Small Silver Coins was in preparation for thirty years. For the first ten
years it was hand printed in manuscript form. Then using his first PC and Applewriter as a word
processor, the first 300 pages were typed. Then it was converted to an IBM PC. It took several more
years to finish the recording and continued editing of the work. The format was converted to Wordstar,
then to MSword and finally about dozen years later, to PageMaker before the final text was finished.
The files were finally converted to Adobe Acrobat 7.0.
Dr. Alan K. Craig, who kindly assisted with the initial editing, upon seeing the finished draft,
remarked it was too long (now over 900 pages). So, reformatting was tackled, converting to the double
column and current tight listing of the FOOTNOTES. A new scanner was used to produce the enlarged
coin illustrations, in most cases from the author's collection. The First Edition was laser printed in two
copies, one residing at the American Numismatic Society library in New York, the other - the author’s
copy. Two years later the First Edition was self-produced, as a CD-rom. Minor corrections and current
prices were added for the Second Edition CD-rom. This version won the Best of Software award of the
Numismatic Literary Guild. The new Third Edition, a revised title, updated with NCLT issues, with a
listing of mints and mint cities, and a new Index was posted on the internet, followed by the printing of
this hard bound Print-on-Demand Edition.
Roger Lane is a member of the American Numismatic Society, Fellow of the Royal Numismatic Society,
and has had articles published by Numismatic International. He is currently the Treasurer and bourse
chair of the Gold Coast Coin Club of Hollywood, Florida and Treasurer of the Fort Lauderdale Coin
Club.
Dr. Alan K. Craig, Ph.D. was a Professor of Geography at Florida Atlantic University since
1966, recently retired. He has published extensively on Spanish Colonial numismatics and maintains
active research interests in Latin American archaeology, anthropology, geography, and geology.
Steve Schor, numismatist has kindly proof read this revised edition with comments and
suggestions, however, the author must respectively takes full responsibilities for any errors and omissions.
Hollywood, Florida
March 28, 2008
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